Mid-Holocene emergence of a low-frequency millennial oscillation in western Mediterranean climate: Implications for past dynamics of the North Atlantic atmospheric westerlies

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-166

  Fletcher, William J ^a,b   Debret, Maxime ^c,d   Goñi, Maria Fernanda Sanchez ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

mid Holocene transition; millennial scale variability; North Atlantic Oscillation; pollen analysis; wavelet analysis; western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DEGLACIATION; EMERGENCE; FOREST COVER; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; IRRADIANCE; MARINE RECORD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND; ISRAEL; MOROCCO; NORWAY;

EID: 84872934435     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612460783     Document Type: Article

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